either imitation or innovation deters technological leadership change by late movers in the long run, since the leading firms … incumbents. We examine the role in catch-up of late movers' optimal resource allocation between innovation and imitation … movers' R&D allocation strategy and technological leadership change. The results suggest that one-sided dependency upon …

opportunity is conducive to technological leadership change. To reconcile this disagreement, we build a computational model of … Schumpeterian competition in which incumbents and latecomers compete with innovation and imitation R&D. First, the results suggest … that technological opportunity indeed has two opposing effects (i.e., positive and negative) on technological leadership …

leadership change. The results suggest that one-sided dependency upon either imitation or innovation deters technological … to reduce the probability of leadership change, it makes imitation a more valuable option because innovation becomes more …We examine the role of latecomers’ optimal resource allocation between innovation and imitation in latecomers’ catch …

patent-derived, innovation system variables, also confirm some aspects of convergence, compared with the early results, for …

innovation capabilities and the capture of latecomer advantages. Africa has missed out on these possibilities in the twentieth …

-based industries of the Asia Pacific, and highlights research on: modes of creativity and innovation; intellectual property; the …This book promotes the creation of advanced knowledge-based economies driven by innovation networks and the continuous … components of national innovation systems such as firms, education and training; knowledge and technical infrastructure; and …